Western Astrology / Traditional Astrology
A critical and reformist treatise on astrology by John Partridge, Physician to Queen Mary II, arguing for a return to Ptolemaic foundations and rejecting the accumulated errors and "idle innovations" of contemporary practitioners. Uses the nativity of Oliver Cromwell as an extended case study in correct directional method, and evaluates the competing systems of Gadbury, Placidus de Titis, and others. A landmark work of late 17th-century astrological reform.
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